I find people are either one way or the other on such issues. They either generally respect nature and animal life or totally don't give a shit and just see it as either entertainment or commodifiable resourses. My only hope is that they might go on if we ever wipe ourselves out.

Birds taste good and if you don't kill them, they shit everywhere. We have to maximize convenience according to J.S. Mill so we should eat the birds, clean less shit and replace nature with TV screens.

Crows taste so bad that nothing will eat them with the single exception of owls. It's the best reason I've ever heard for eating carrion. Actually, birds are fascinating, if you spend enough time around them. Each one has every bit as much personality as a human.